I own a 3060 myself and I find that RTX barely maxes a difference picture wise in most cases. But on high/medium settings with Ray tracing and DLSS is a great experience in games like cyberpunk where the ray tracing makes the game look better.
Its very unfair for testers to *always combine ray tracing with DLSS.* That what gives a lot of folks the illusion that cards are slower than they actually are. And that *VRAM* is bigger than it really is.
@@tunatuna4710 Because some shadows, occlusion or reflection are just gimmicks. Global illumination and lights bouncing, high resolution RT and proper texturing are game changers. Actually they can be even less noticeable than some flashy RT reflections, but it works perfectly for overall natural lightning.
@@ymiroundShort anwer: yes. Though it's marketed as 1080p card, it depends on the game and settings and what you find comfortable. I have one and play comfortable at 1440p but don't play many very new games at the moment. And for those newer ones DLSS comes to the rescue. Personally I would recommend a RX6600 XT or RX6700 cus mostly they're the same price or cheaper and offer a bit more performance (non RT).
@@ymiround depends on the game. Ive recently upgraded to the 4090 with my two years on the 3060; 1440p on triple a games like battlefield on high settings isnt possible without a big dip in performance. 3060 is a card that can do 1440p on low/med settings pushing 80-100 frames. If u want to be competitive like 144+ u can run 1080p on high comfortably. DLSS does give you higher frames at a latency cost so use that to determine your preference.
@@Astelch DLSS doesn't add latency, It lowers It, because more real frames, mean less latency. The downside Is that It lowers the image quality by a bit. Frame generation is the thing that add latency because It create non-responsive frames. And only 40 series gpus can use FG.
I feel like GhostRunner would have been a nice game to try out in this video. There is a whole bunch of neon and explosions that can be raytraced in that game. Enjoy the work, keep it going! 😊
It's definitely possible to have good RT expirence with 3060, as long as you tweak your game right. Like here in Watch Dogs Legion, you don't really need ultra, high looks good enough, set RT to medium and you good to go. Common mistake is people set ray tracing to ultra when medium or even low is enough and it would much better than rasterization
??? 1080p 60+ fps is something to be proud of in like 2012 dude, not 2023. I get 144fps at maxxed out ultra 1440p with ultra raytracing enabled with the 4070ti. Got it for 730.
Damn the 3060 is "The" gpu, performance is good actually imo actually expected less fps bit im surprised, in a future RT video would you test the RE games, they also had an RT update a while ago and it would be nice to see how it goes Love your content bro
I used limited ray tracing in Cyberpunk on RTX 2060 Super (at 55-65 FPS). It's obviously not powerful enough to run all ray tracing elements, but if you configure your settings correctly it will work just fine.
With my RTX 3060 I use Ray Tracing in older games at 1440p resolution and sometimes 4k Resolution with DLSS or FSR. For example I can enjoy the original Half Life Ray Traced at 1440p with around 60 FPS. So yeah the 3060 is a decent GPU :)
@@ulfricstormcloak7142 the thing is that 1440p is the barrier to entry for higher levels of DLSS. Quality DLSS is the only really usable setting at 1080p before there's serious image quality compromises, while you can go up to Balanced/Performance and retain most 90% of the quality at 1440p, depending on the game. I played cyberpunk with performance dlss, medium-high settings, rt reflecitons and psycho lighting, and it was very playable. It rarely dipped outside of my monitor's 48fps G-Sync range, and looked real good
raytracing on this card is amazing, I'm on a 165hz panel coming from a 1050ti, and coming from playign these titles on lowest settings 30-60 fps to rtx max settings 60 fps feels so great. This card can also play every single competitive title I play at 240fps+ lowest settings (apex, overwatch, r6). So if you enjoy shooters competitively, but also want great graphics in single-player games then this card is AMAZING. You also want to keep in mind that the 12gb version offers more vram than the 3060ti. So in some titles you may even be limited to play with lower settings if you want rtx on with the ti. You genuinely can't find a better value card than this if you're interested in play with raytracing imo.
I got a 3060Ti rather than a regular 3060 because of the memory bandwidth, and Cyberpunk on 1440p, high settings, DLSS performance and RT medium. But like most people say: "is it really worth it?" You have great content thank you for all the comparisons and reviews!
doubt anyone will believe me, so, not really sure why I'm taking the time to do this but, I have the ROG Strix RTX 3060 just keep that in mind, in Cyberpunk on all settings high including RT, I get 60+ fps average. Shut RT off and bump up to ultra, 100+fps solid. Fortnite, and I find this to be very interesting and cool, with a recent update to that game, I can now enable RT/Lumen on epic and still get 80+fps in BR. I heavily utilize DLSS Q or B tho and I do slightly OC mine so it runs at 2GHz, (1080p). Very happy to see you doing content on the 3060 !
I launched forza and RT isn't available anymore in the game, only in forza vista, even when RT is set to extreme (it says that in the settings description). I tried checking it out in a road, next to another car and it didn't reflect the other car... Turns out they removed it from the game entirely which is weird. No idea how it'd do in tower of fantasy, I don't even know the game tbh! Haha Thanks mate :)
@@zWORMzGaming u mean in the latest official version or the leaked build ? Btw u can force RT even on a lot of the older versions w cheat engine or smth i think oh and digital foundry made a vid bout it also it might be that you only chose the 'medium' or 'high' option on RT wich only does rt in the vista but the 'ultra' and 'extrame' do it at half and full res respectively for the npc and other cars and environment also and tower of fantasy is kinda underrated like mmo w dlss3 and RT support it might be interesting to see what it can do because i couldn't find any benchmarks for it. Thx for your response bless u !
NVIDIA mentioned that it would release updates for DLSS2.0 for all 30 series cards. However, 3060 has enough RT power for 1080p to make games with almost 2X FPS.
@@nocopyrightgameplaystockvi231 dlss Is not only for series 40, frame generation is only for the 40. Right now dlss Is at the 3.1 or 3.2 version and even the rtx 3060 can use It. FG Is a different technology associated with DLSS only for marketing.
@@nocopyrightgameplaystockvi231 you're right, DLSS 3.0 Is only for the series 40, confused with DLSS 3.1.11 that Is the latest version of DLSS 2. FG should really be called DLFG and not marketed as the same thing as DLSS, as they are different technologies, it's just confusing.
The youtube GPU comment brigade is quick to say this card cant ray trace...yet it clearly can. Cyberpunk could be closer to 70fps with the right settings, with lighting set to ultra Edit: Most of these games are better on the 3060 at 60fps with ray tracing on than consoles, and I think this card is a good alternative to consoles.
@@zWORMzGaming I know the general idea is high fps especially on YT, but most people don't even have high refresh rate monitors. Everyone seems oblivious to that. They are also oblivious to this: the card was made to be a better than console experience, and it stops there. Ray Tracing on a console doesn't even use reflections or lighting...it plays just like you turn on ray tracing but leave all the option switches off in Cyberpunk. I know a 165hz monitor playing a game at 60fps is way nicer than a console playing 60fps on a 60hz tv. That is the market for this card. Nvidia said as much and for once they weren't lying. There is just such a lack of insight on almost every YT channel that focuses on PC gaming. It's so sad that most people wont even try because of the criticism laid out on this card, and others like it. Not everyone wants tweaker frame rates, but most people don't want to be looked down on either.
@@CuttinInIdahoI'm on board w/this comment 👍. I'm relatively new to pc gaming coming from 20 years of console. Looking for an upgraded console experience to still play on controller (it just clicks best w/me at this point)to use at 60fps on my OLED w/top graphical features as options to play with. Upon research before purchase a few months back, it was very mis-leading that only a 3070 min and higher end cards which are priced ridiculously were the only way to have a good experience. Well those weren't in the budget so I just decided to go against the grain and get the most reasonable price for what I thought could pull out the performance I was looking for....and I'm glad I did cuz u can have a great, and much better than console experience on a 3060 12gb. I have the triple fan gigabyte version paired w/i-5 12600KF and its been fantastic. U can use ultra textures and shadows and a few other top features that will drastically give u the detail and quality u need and adjust from there, use dlss ect. To achieve that higher end 60fps experience. But all over researching u see everyone just using flat presets across the board. If u didn't have a pc, ir any knowledge u would think these cheaper GPU's were just junk. But at half and some a third of the price they are plenty capable to game if 60fps is the end goal.
@@zWORMzGaming It depends on the game, in CP 2077 with ray traced lighting on ultra and mixed settings and DLSS, it can run at 60 fps, without it at above 80, but it's one of just few games where it's worth turning it on to experience it.
I beat Control a while back playing at 1440p medium settings (max textures) and medium rtx preset. Only had to set the internal resolution to 1080p for dlss, not sure what preset that is equivalent to though. Of course I don't watch my fps like a mad man but I can tell you it was smooth. For now that is the only rtx game I have played but it was an incredible experience and the 3060 is definitely capable of outputting rtx, you just have to manage your expectations.
When you testing about rtx you should really put metro exodus enhanced edition into videos cause the game based on a directly rtx lightning and shadows you cant disable it
Idk i got a 3060 myself, with a tad bit of tweaking and dlss quality you can get pretty great fps on 1080p and games have been looking awesome. The card didn’t disappoint at all. Don’t forget that the 60 series cards are not top of the line, and for where they are on the food chain i think it’s a really viable option if you find one at a great price. (Just stay away from 8gb models, they tend to be almost as much as the 12gb ones)
I think many times we forgrt about removing that Riva tuner overlay so u won't be bother by actual fps drop would be little bit less noticed and it breaks the game immersion . I think maybe in single player games dlss can be nice but seeing as games are so poorly optimized , extra eye candy can be turned off . To me games actually look great even without RT . I have a mobile rtx 3070 so basically desktop rtx 3060ti performance
the highest rated power 125w 3070 tests slightly behind a desktop 3060 and quite far off a 3060ti. Not sayin it is bad; You have a gpu equivalent to last gens desktop 2070S which is still quite overkill for almost any game as seen here. Turning down settings is literally user side optimization. I truly don't see any difference in this gens games vs games like witcher 2 and crysis and there was a lot less "optimization" complaints back then. I think the whole climate of pc gamers has shifted towards a weird sense of entitlement that their older hardware should be better, and new hardware should be like half the price it currently is. The 10 series and up all run current games at fairly decent settings; that being said, so do higher end 7xx-9xx series. Could just be social media emphasizing the aggressive complaintists in favor of views and clicks.
Your 3060 model looks beautiful in white. I wouldn't turned it on on a 3060 since it's a budget card now and it really dozen matter if you play without the #RTXON . However in games like Control and Dying Light 2 it actually looks great to not turned it on. Most games are already decent at baked lighting. Even DLSS won't help much but the performance hit when RTX ON is unbearable. Hmm.
@@jesusbarrera6916 well 400$ is not so bad, for 3070 you need to pay like 700$ so yes it is budget when other entertaining cost at least 1000$ so 400$ for 3 or 4 years is budget for me
i have one and i use rtx in games like cyberpunk or spiderman and it is a great experience at 1080p with dlss maybe even at 1440p with dlss on balanced. (nice video)
Hi, Question here, now majority of videos that talks about each Graphic Cards Benchmark Test, Did you Optimize Both the Graphic Card and the PC itself so that It Can be the Real Results?
I got a question, is the laptop 3060 with 115 watt tdp same as the desktop one? Excluding the vram. Because laptop rtx 3060 has more cuda cores than its desktop counterpart.
Still can't see the point of RT. In most cases (Spider-Man when you're licking windows being one of the few exceptions), you never even notice whether or not it's there unless you're specifically looking for it (and I'd rather save my attention for the gameplay).
They did something with RayTracing in Battlefield, it use to hurt performance a lot, but its a lot better now, I even forgot it was enabled on my 3080ti, Still tanks fps on my 6800xt though.
if you play more with medium and high settings im sure you can get stable 60 fps on most games with dlss and ray tracing. this is why im waiting for 4060 , with frame generation those low cards will double thier fps on these games, without ray tracing it will be possible to play 4k 60 fps with dlss for sure
Frame generation can't give you good results if you haven't got around 60 "real" frames without It. If you use It on 30 FPS, you will have the latency of 20 FPS so the game experience will be bad. Don't let that technology fool you, It Is good only when your gpu can do 60 FPS without It. So, a 4060 won't be able to use It well at 4k or even 1440p (as it's performance will be less than a 3060 ti). And i Heard that FG need a lot of VRAM so i doubt 8GB will be enough. Don't wait for the 4060, buy an RX 6700 with 10 GB for 1080, or a 6800 XT for 1440p.
@@dizesias good points to be honest, that was my worries too, still gonna wait for benchmarks to see it form myself. yep 8gb ram is terrible news, 12 should be minimum on any 4000 series card... i would get amd but they are just nightmare on drivers and temps, had one , and never will again untill they fixes stuff, too many stuff about amd gpus on reddit and amd forums people begging to fix basic things... maybe ill get 4070 or ti version, idk, love nvidia cards, just they dont want to give us everything now, they cut corners to make other gen mo pleasing...
Can u retest the 3080 aswell? Im thinking of getting that if it's $299 used here, currently most are selling for $400+ even the dell oem ones Curious if it can do 144 with rt on 1080p🤔
ray tracing is beautiful! Not very playable but sure you can screenshot it and nothing will seem wrong 😅Next make a video ray tracing a 3050, im sure it wont be playable enough to even take screenshots 😂
Amazing videos . I'm a very big fan of gpus and CPUs and a whole lot. You review them so well. Why Don't you do a video were you tell us about Krzzyp(yourself) I think that'd be great
"Should you" with the baseline of Ultra is an instant No regardless of the game and even GPU. I think the video would have been better had you opted for 1080 and 1440p with DLSS. And aswell Optimized Settings rather than Ultra (Nobody with a brain should play games on Ultra because you cant tell the difference in anything BUT framerate) The HBU optimized settings for Cyberjank can net you a boost of well over 20-30 fps regardless of 1080p or 1440p without DLSS. And you cant tell ANY visual differences. Then you enable Raytracing and DLSS and suddenly the game looks the same as before, but with Raytracing and youre actually playing the game at a fairly smooth 55-60 granted your CPU isnt from 2010. I wish RU-vidrs would actually explore the High vs Ultra more often, in order to well, not really educate, but show people that the difference in visuals vs framerate, is not worth it. Pretty much ever. And so that the whole "must play on Ultra" craze can die off.
For anyone watching this - dont buy this card if you want to raytrace at all, whether it be at 1080p low-med settings, its just not powerful enough and for all you current 3060 owners who say raytracing barely makes a difference and need to use dlss to achieve any sort of stable framerates - keep inhaling that copium
I managed to get a solid 60fps avg with 55fps low by changing some settings with dlss quality on 1080p with RT. But When you hit the expansion area I'd recommend putting it back to ultra without dlss for extra performance for Cyberpunk. So RT is nice from time to time but I wouldn't play with it on all the time. Ultra looks just as good except for a few scenarios.
wow, this video shows perfectly how right i was with my 3060 purchase. it can even play red dead on 4k Ultra with 30fps, i just found out. amazing card for 240 bucks.
You can but with DLSS, not highest ray tracing setting, and medium to low settings... For most high-end games unoptimized. Games like COD 2019 can even at 1440p high.
For me, i would only use ray tracing if it actually makes a significant difference, so in games like controll, portal RTX, Quake RTX, Minecraft RTX, Cyberbug 2077, Metro Exodus enhanced edition, etc.
I must be the only one who hates how sharpening makes games look. If I could turn it off in every game I would, like in Elden Ring where it's forced on to some degree with the TAA and you can see different colour pixels surrounding stuff like grass and foliage that looks more hideous than the blur to me.
RTX & Dlss only godd for AAA action, adventure games, & sandbox if you play online competitive FPS or racing games, better focus high Anistropic and low settings for higher FPS
I am building a pc , what would you recommend ? A 3060 with R5 5600x or 6650 XT with the same processor. I found out 6650 XT is more powerful than 3060. So should I get that AMD card or the nvidia one..? I don't have budget to go with 3060 ti or i should have gone with that.
hey zWORMz Gaming, can you make a video addressing recent talk about 8GB GPUs like the 3060ti, 3070 and 3070ti allegedly running out of vram at 1440p and crawling down to 10fps (in callisto protocol and doom eternal ultra nightmare textures and textures in hogwarts legacy not even loading properly) while gpus like 3060 can handle those settings and still maintain smooth (but medium) framerates? i trust your channel more than others and am beginning to think it is just a marketing trick by amd fanboys. also, could you do a review on the 6700xt and 6800's ray tracing capabilities? again i've been hearing all sorts of claims from amd guys saying they can easily keep up with a 3070 and 3070ti respectively even with ray tracing on
When you test Minecraft Windows 10 RTX in the future, use a fan made RTX texture pack (I recommend Kelly's RTX, Vanilla RTX or Defined PBR) because Nvidia's default RTX texture pack is meant for showcasing their own RTX worlds not regular gameplay.
I ever use rtx at least at medium with the 3060 in combination with dlss2 or fsr2. I made the necessary detail adjustments and it works great. Best performance in Control, where I set it to high in 2k and dlss balanced, and it runs great. Good performance in 2k in Amid Evil with fsr2 balanced and 12 ray tracing rays. People's pretend to run raytracing with detail setted to fu**Ing useless Ultra on midrange gpus, but set it to high and dlss or fsr and it will go very well
Can the 3060 play in 1440p? Or just 1080p? New to PC gaming. Getting a prebuilt that looks promising. Just need confirmation is all. And can the card VR and have HDR?
